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Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots is a 2011 book by the British Labour Party politician David Lammy about the 2011 England riots.

Background
David Lammy, the Member of Parliament for Tottenham, grew up in Tottenham close to the site of the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots. The 2011 riots also began in Tottenham following the shooting of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police officers.

Overview
Lammy attributes the riots to hedonism and nihilism, but also consumerism and a culture of estrangement which has created an underclass. He criticises aspects of the "liberal Left" for their inattentiveness to the problems of single-parent families and "the importance of fatherhood."